Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn and hammel at Maes y Meillion
Talsarnau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 30 December 2004
- Locality
- Eisingrug
- Community
- Talsarnau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.89171, -4.05911
- Cadw reference
- 83429
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the W side of the country road leading N from Eisingrug and to the NW of Maes y neuadd. The haybarn is at the W of the group.
History
The barn is one of a group of farm buildings at Maes y Meillion, which were originally associated with Maes y neuadd. The barn and adjacent cowhouse are thought to be late C18; but the hammel is a later, probably C19, addition. Possibly originated as a cornbarn, later adapted as a haybarn.
Exterior
The barn is a single storeyed 4-bay building; Well-coursed and roughly dressed boulder construction with random slate roof. Doorway in east-facing elevation, with other openings blocked or partially blocked, and apex of north gable open. Hammel has single pitched roof against NW corner of barn, with 3-bay open front onto a yard with a gateway in the south wall. (The barn is linked to the neighbouring cowhouse by a blockwork addition).
Interior
Pegged tie-beam trusses with collars.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good traditional farmbuilding; the exceptional quality of its construction may indicate its high status as part of the important estate of Maes y neuadd. Part of a group with the adjacent cow house.
Nearby in the register
- Cowhouse at Maes y MeillionAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Gateposts and flanking wall at Maes y MeillionDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gateposts and flanking walls at Maes-y-neuaddDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled gardens at Maes-y-neuaddDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.